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Study Guides by Author: B

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  • Babbitt, Natalie
    • Tuck Everlasting
  • Bach, Richard
    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • Bacigalupi, Paolo
    • Pump Six and Other Stories
    • The Water Knife
  • Backman, Fredrik
    • Anxious People
    • Beartown
    • A Man Called Ove
    • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
  • Bacon, Francis
    • Francis Bacon: Essays and Major Works
    • New Atlantis
    • The New Organon
  • Baitz, Jon Robin
    • Other Desert Cities
  • Baker, Nicholson
    • The Mezzanine
  • Baker, Sean
    • The Florida Project
  • Baldwin, James
    • Another Country
    • Blues for Mister Charlie
    • The Fire Next Time
    • Giovanni's Room
    • Going to Meet the Man
    • Go Tell it On the Mountain
    • If Beale Street Could Talk
    • Nobody Knows My Name
    • Notes of a Native Son
    • Sonny's Blues
  • Ballard, Chris
    • One Shot at Forever
  • Ballard, J.G.
    • The Drought
    • The Drowned World
    • Empire of the Sun
  • Balzac, Honore de
    • Cousin Bette
    • Eugenie Grandet
    • Pere Goriot
  • Bambara, Toni Cade
    • Gorilla, My Love
  • Bancroft, Tony
  • Banks, Iain
    • The Wasp Factory
  • Banks, Lynne Reid
    • The Indian in the Cupboard
  • Banks, Russell
    • Continental Drift
  • Barack Obama
    • A Promised Land
  • Baraka, Imamu Amiri
    • An Agony. As Now
    • Dutchman and The Slave
    • In Memory of Radio
    • The Liar (poem)
    • The Liar
  • Barbauld, Anna
    • Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose
  • Barbery, Muriel
    • The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  • Barbusse, Henri
    • Under Fire
  • Bardugo, Leigh
    • Crooked Kingdom
    • Hell Bent
    • Ninth House
    • Ruin and Rising
    • Shadow and Bone
    • Siege and Storm
    • Six of Crows
  • Barker, George
    • George Barker: Poems
  • Barker, Pat
    • The Eye in the Door
    • The Ghost Road
    • Regeneration
    • Women of Troy
  • Barnes, Djuna
    • Nightwood
  • Barnes, Julian
    • A History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters
    • The Sense of an Ending
  • Barnett, Randy E.
    • An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know
  • Barnhill, Kelly
    • The Girl Who Drank the Moon
  • Barrie, J. M.
    • The Little White Bird
    • Peter Pan
    • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
  • Barrows, Annie
    • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
  • Barry, Max
    • Lexicon
    • Machine Man
  • Barry, Sebastian
    • The Secret Scripture
  • Barthelme, Donald
    • Snow White
  • Barthes, Roland
    • Mythologies
    • S/Z
  • Barth, John
    • Chimera
  • Bartlett, Hall
    • Zero Hour! (Film)
  • Bassani, Giorgio
    • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  • Bass, Ellen
    • Basket of Figs
    • The Thing Is
  • Batuman, Elif
    • Either/Or (Batuman)
  • Bauby, Jean-Dominique
    • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • Baudelaire, Charles
    • Artificial Paradises
    • Charles Baudelaire: Poems
    • The Flowers of Evil
  • Baumbach, Noah
    • Marriage Story
  • Baum, L. Frank
    • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Baxter, James
    • "The Bad Young Man" and Other Poems
  • Baxter, James K.
    • Elegy For My Father's Father
  • Bayard, Louis
    • Courting Mr Lincoln
    • Jackie and Me
    • The Pale Blue Eye
  • Bayoumi, Moustafa
    • How Does It Feel to Be a Problem
  • Beah, Ishmael
    • A Long Way Gone
    • Radiance of Tomorrow
  • Beals, Melba
    • Warriors Don't Cry
  • Beams, Clare
    • The Illness Lesson
  • Beattie, Ann
    • The State We're In: Maine Stories
    • Where You'll Find Me
  • Beatty, Paul
    • The Sellout
    • The White Boy Shuffle
  • Beatty, Robert
    • Willa of the Wood
  • Beaumarchais, Pierre
    • The Barber of Seville
    • The Marriage of Figaro
  • Beaumont, Francis
    • Philaster
  • Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de
    • "Beauty and the Beast" and Other Tales
  • Bechdel, Alison
    • Fun Home
  • Becker, Jurek
    • Jacob the Liar
  • Beckett, Samuel
    • Act Without Words
    • Endgame
    • Happy Days
    • Malone Dies
    • Play
    • Samuel Beckett: Plays
    • Waiting for Godot
  • Beerbohm, Max
    • Zuleika Dobson
  • Behn, Aphra
    • Aphra Behn: Poems
    • The Disappointment
    • The Fair Jilt
    • On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester
    • Oroonoko
    • The Rover
    • Song ("Love Armed")
    • Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally")
  • Bellairs, John
    • The House with a Clock in Its Walls
  • Bellamy, Edward
    • Looking Backward 2000-1887
  • Bellow, Saul
    • The Adventures of Augie March
    • Herzog
    • Mr. Sammler's Planet
    • Seize the Day
  • Bell, Thomas
    • Out of Thhis Furnace
  • Bender, Aimee
    • The Rememberer
  • Benedict of Nursia
    • The Rule of Saint Benedict
  • Benet, Stephen Vincent
    • By the Waters of Babylon
    • The Devil and Daniel Webster
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    • Life is Beautiful
  • Benioff, David
    • City of Thieves
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    • Illuminations
    • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  • Ben Jelloun, Tahar
    • The Sand Child
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    • The History Boys
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    • The Mothers
    • The Vanishing Half
  • Bennett, Claire-Louise
    • Checkout 19
  • Bennett, Gwendolyn
    • Gwendolyn Bennett: Poetry
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    • E.F. Benson: Short Stories
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    • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • Berger, John
    • Ways of Seeing
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    • Scenes From a Marriage
  • Bergman, Megan Mayhew
    • How Strange A Season
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    • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
  • Berlant, Lauren
    • Cruel Optimism
  • Berman, Marshall
    • All That is Solid Melts Into Air
  • Bernhard Schlink
    • The Reader
  • Bernhard, Thomas
    • Extinction
  • Beroul
    • The Romance of Tristan
  • Berryman, John
    • The Dream Songs
  • Besson, Luc
    • The Fifth Element
  • Betjeman, John
    • Slough
  • Bezmozgis, David
    • Natasha and Other Stories
  • Bhardwaj, Vishal
    • Omkara
  • Bhasa
    • Svapnavasavadattam (The Dream of Vasavadatta)
  • Bhatt, Sujata
    • The Poems of Sujata Bhatt
  • Bidart, Frank
    • Frank Bidart: Selected Poems
  • Biden, Joe
    • Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Promise
    • Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
  • Bierce, Ambrose
    • "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and Other Civil War Stories
    • Chickamauga
    • A Horseman in the Sky
    • The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
  • Bigelow, Kathryn
    • Detroit (2016 film)
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    • Temple Folk
  • Bioy Casares, Adolfo
    • Diario de la guerra del cerdo
    • The Invention of Morel
  • Birch, Tony
    • Shadowboxing
  • Bird, Kia
    • American Prometheus
  • Bird, Robert Montgomery
    • Sheppard Lee
  • Birney, Earle
    • Earle Birney: Poems
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    • Crusoe in England
    • Elizabeth Bishop: Poems
    • Elizabeth Bishop: Selected Prose
    • Filling Station
    • First Death in Nova Scotia
    • The Fish
    • In the Waiting Room
    • Man-Moth
    • The Monument
    • The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem)
    • One Art
    • Sestina (Elizabeth Bishop poem)
  • Bissinger, H. G.
    • Friday Night Lights
  • Black, Benjamin
    • The Black-Eyed Blonde
  • Black, Daniel
    • The Coming
  • Blackman, Josh
    • An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know
  • Blackman, Malorie
    • Noughts and Crosses
  • Black, Shane
    • The Nice Guys
  • Blackwell, Geoff
    • I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Blackwood, Gary
    • The Year of the Hangman
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    • The Lamb
    • The Poems of William Blake
    • Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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    • Corrections in Ink
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    • The Poetry and Journalism of Jean Blewett
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    • House of Hearts
    • Weetzie Bat
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    • District 9
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    • Tangerine
  • Blume, Judy
    • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    • Forever
    • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
  • Bly, Nellie
    • Ten Days in a Mad-House
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni
    • The Decameron
    • On Famous Women
  • Boethius, Ancius
    • The Consolation of Philosophy
  • Boey Kim Cheng
    • The Planners
  • Bolano, Roberto
    • By Night in Chile
    • Distant Star
    • The Savage Detectives
  • Böll, Heinrich
    • The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
  • Bolton, John
    • The Room Where It Happened
  • Bolt, Robert
    • A Man For All Seasons
  • Bond, Edward
    • Saved
  • Bong Joon-ho
    • Parasite
    • Snowpiercer
  • Booker, Cory
    • United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
  • Boorman, John
    • Deliverance
  • Booy, Simon Van
    • Love Begins in Winter
    • Save as Many as You Ruin
  • Borden, Lizzie
    • Born in Flames
  • Borges, Jorge Luis
    • Jorge Borges: Short Stories
    • Jorge Luis Borges: Poetry
    • The Library of Babel
  • Bornstein, Michael
    • Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz
  • Borowski, Tadeusz
    • This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
  • Bosse, Malcolm
    • Tusk and Stone
  • Boswell, James
    • The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
  • Boulley, Angeline
    • Firekeeper's Daughter
  • Bourgois, Philippe
    • In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
  • Bovell, Andrew
    • Speaking in Tongues
  • Boyden, Joseph
    • The Orenda
    • Three Day Road
  • Boyer, Paul
    • Salem Possessed
  • Boylan, Jennifer Finney
    • She's Not There
  • Boyle, Danny
    • Slumdog Millionaire
    • T2 Trainspotting
    • Trainspotting (Film)
  • Boyle, Gregory
    • Tattoos on the Heart
  • Boyle, Kay
    • Astronomer's Wife
  • Boyle, Kevin
    • Arc of Justice
  • Boyle, T.C.
    • Greasy Lake
    • The Road the Wellville
    • The Short Stories of T.C. Boyle
    • The Tortilla Curtain
    • When the Killing's Done
  • Boyne, John
    • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • Bracken, Alexandra
    • The Darkest Minds
    • In the Afterlight
    • Never Fade
  • Bradbury, Ray
    • Cuentos de Ray Bradbury
    • Dandelion Wine
    • Fahrenheit 451
    • The Illustrated Man
    • The Martian Chronicles
    • Ray Bradbury: Short Stories
    • Something Wicked This Way Comes
    • Zero Hour
  • Braddon, Mary
    • Lady Audley's Secret
  • Braden, Allen
    • Allen Braden: Poetry
  • Braden, Ann
    • The Benefits of Being an Octopus
  • Bradford, Richard
    • Red Sky at Morning
  • Bradley, A.C.
    • Shakespearean Tragedy
  • Bradley, David
    • The Chaneysville Incident
  • Bradley, James
    • Flags of Our Fathers
  • Bradley, Katherine Harris
    • Michael Field: Poetry
  • Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
    • The War That Saved My Life
  • Bradstreet, Anne
    • Anne Bradstreet: Poems
  • Branagh, Kenneth
    • Hamlet (1996 Film)
    • Henry V (Film)
    • Thor (2011 Film)
    • Twelfth Night (1988 Film)
  • Brand, Dionne
    • At the Full and Change of the Moon
    • What We All Long For
  • Brant, George
    • Elephant's Graveyard
    • Grounded
  • Brathwaite, Edward Kamau
    • The Arrivants
  • Brecht, Bertolt
    • The Caucasian Chalk Circle
    • Galileo
    • The Good Woman of Setzuan
    • Jungle of Cities
    • The Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke
    • Mother Courage and Her Children
    • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
    • The Threepenny Opera
  • Brenda Shaughnessy
    • The Octopus Museum
  • Breton, Andre
    • Nadja
  • Brettschneider, Corey
    • Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Bridges, Robert
    • London Snow
  • Bridle, James
    • New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
  • Brierly, Saroo
    • A Long Way Home
  • Briggs, Raymond
    • Father Christmas
    • The Snowman
  • Brittain, Vera
    • Testament of Youth
  • Bronislaw Malinowski
    • Argonauts of the Western Pacific
  • Bronte, Anne
    • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Bronte, Charlotte
    • Charlotte Bronte: Poems
    • Jane Eyre
    • Shirley
    • Villette
  • Bronte, Emily
    • A Day Dream
    • Emily Bronte: Poems
    • Hope (Emily Brontë poem)
    • Long Neglect Has Worn Away
    • No Coward Soul Is Mine
    • Remembrance
    • Wuthering Heights
  • Brooker, Charlie
    • Black Mirror: The National Anthem
  • Brooke, Rupert
    • Rupert Brooke: Poems
  • Brook, Rhidian
    • The Aftermath
  • Brooks, Geraldine
    • Caleb's Crossing
    • Horse: A Novel
    • Year of Wonders
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn
    • The Bean Eaters
    • Beverly Hills, Chicago
    • Gwendolyn Brooks: Poems
    • We Real Cool
  • Brooks Jr., Frederick P.
    • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
  • Brooks, Louise
    • Lulu in Hollywood
  • Brooks, Max
    • World War Z
  • Brooks, Richard
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 Film)
  • Brown, Charles Brockden
    • Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
    • Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
    • Wieland
  • Brown, Dan
    • Angels and Demons
    • The Da Vinci Code
    • Inferno
  • Brown, Daniel James
    • The Boys in the Boat
  • Brown, Dee
    • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Browning, Elizabeth
    • The Cry of the Children
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Poems
    • If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Nought (Sonnet 14)
    • I Think of Thee (Sonnet 29)
    • A Musical Instrument
    • Sonnet 24 (Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife)
    • Sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.)
  • Browning, Robert
    • Robert Browning: Poems
  • Brown, Jericho
    • The Tradition
  • Brown, Margaret Wise
    • Goodnight Moon
  • Brown, Pierce
    • Golden Sun
    • Morning Star
    • Red Rising
  • Brown, Wendy
    • Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
  • Brown, William Hill
    • The Power of Sympathy
  • Brown, William Wells
    • Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
  • Bruchac, Joseph
    • Code Talker
  • Brundage, Elizabeth
    • All Things Cease to Appear
  • Bruno Schulz
    • The Street of Crocodiles
  • Bryant, Kobe
    • The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
  • Bryant, William Cullen
    • William Cullen Bryant: Poems
  • Bryson, Bill
    • The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    • A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Buber, Martin
    • I and Thou
  • Buchan, John
    • The Thirty-Nine Steps (Novel)
  • Buchner, George
    • Woyzeck
  • Buck, Pearl S.
    • The Enemy
    • The Good Earth
  • Buechner, Frederick
    • Godric
  • Bui, Thi
    • The Best We Could Do
  • Bukowski, Charles
    • Charles Bukowski: Selected Poems
  • Bulawayo, NoViolet
    • Glory
    • We Need New Names
  • Bulbul Sharma
    • My Sainted Aunts
  • Bulgakov, Mikhail
    • Heart of a Dog
    • The Master and Margarita
  • Bulosan, Carlos
    • America Is in the Heart
  • Bunin, Ivan
    • Sunstroke: Selected Stories of Ivan Bunin
  • Bunnag, Tew
    • The Naga's Journey
  • Bunting, Eve
    • Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
  • Bunyan, John
    • Pilgrim's Progress
  • Burch, Jennings Michael
    • They Cage the Animals at Night
  • Burdekin, Katharine
    • Swastika Night
  • Burdick, Eugene
    • The Ugly American
  • Burger, Neil
    • Divergent (2014 Film)
    • Limitless
  • Burgess, Anthony
    • A Clockwork Orange
  • Burke, Edmund
    • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
    • Reflections On the Revolution In France
  • Burke, J.C.
    • The Story of Tom Brennan
  • Burnet, Graeme Macrae
    • Case Study
  • Burnett, Frances Hodgson
    • A Little Princess
    • The Secret Garden
  • Burney, Frances
    • Evelina
  • Burnford, Sheila
    • The Incredible Journey
  • Burns, Charles
    • Black Hole
  • Burns, Olive Ann
    • Cold Sassy Tree
  • Burns, Robert
    • Ae Fond Kiss
    • Robert Burns: Poems
    • To a Mouse
  • Burpo, Todd
    • Heaven is for Real
  • Burroughs, Edgar Rice
    • A Princess of Mars
    • Tarzan of the Apes
  • Burroughs, William S.
    • Naked Lunch
  • Burton, Tim
    • Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
    • Batman (1989 film)
    • Beetlejuice
    • Big Fish (Film)
  • Butcher, Jim
    • Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera Book 1)
    • Storm Front (The Dresden Files Book 1)
  • Butcher, Tim
    • Blood River
  • Butler, Blake
    • Ever
  • Butler, Judith
    • Gender Trouble
  • Butler, Octavia E.
    • "Bloodchild" and Other Stories
    • Clay's Ark
    • Dawn
    • Kindred
    • Parable of the Sower
  • Butler, Robert Olen
    • A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
  • Butler, Samuel
    • The Way of All Flesh
  • Butlin, Ron
    • The Sound of My Voice
  • Butterworth, Jez
    • Jerusalem
  • Buttigieg, Pete
    • Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge
    • Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
  • Buzo, Alex
    • Norm and Ahmed
  • Buzzati, Dino
    • The Seven Messengers
  • Byatt, A. S.
    • Angels & Insects: Two Novellas
    • The Children's Book
    • Possession
    • The Thing in the Forest
  • Byron, Lord
    • January 22nd, Missolonghi (On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year)
    • Lord Byron's Poems
    • Prometheus (Byron poem)
    • Stanzas (When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home)
    • Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
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